That a bit of a stretch, RW. When a scientist characterizes nascent (embryonic aged) life with words like 'pre-embryo' or 'merely a blob of undifferentiated cells', knowing the assertions are false and meaning to deceive, it doesn't take a math Wiz to call it lying.
I have known top rate scientists who had the most outrageously trogish opinions on matters even slightly outside their specialization. So have you.